CI-New: Collaborative Research: HomeSHARE - Home-based Smart Health Applications across Research Environments

CI-New：协作研究：HomeSHARE - 跨研究环境的基于家庭的智能健康应用

• 批准号: 1625451
• 负责人: George Demiris
• 金额: $ 2.05万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2018-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1625451&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; New; Collaborative; Research; HomeSHARE

This project provides funding to develop HomeSHARE, a community infrastructure for doing research around aging in place that provides the community with access to a network of smart homes with a standard sensor package and the ability to add custom technology as needed for specific studies. Currently, although there is much research interest in using home-based sensors to model mobility and health, setting up these kinds of studies is difficult and there is little infrastructure to support it. This tends to cause duplicate, wasted effort in setting up sites; very small numbers of participating homes, limiting the generality and power of the research; and incompatibilities in the setups used by different teams that make it hard to put different pieces of research together. To address this, the team will create the backbone of a large network of homes that can support research that uses sensed information to predict a number of attributes about older adults at home, including mobility patterns, mental health, hospital readmissions, and energy use. The main activities are to deploy their suite of sensors and other computing technology in a total of 30 volunteers' homes at two partner institutions, and develop software that connects and collects data from the homes. Team members will work carefully with residents of the homes to cover the costs of technologies and address privacy and technical concerns they have. They will also create materials that cover technical, ethical, and training issues that other researchers can use both as client sites to conduct studies using the existing network (for a fee to cover operating costs) and as installation sites who join the network directly by adding their own smart homes. To manage demand for the infrastructure, the team will create a governing board of researchers drawn initially from the awardees' institutions. This board will review the technology needs and applications for studies to ensure that they meet the ethical and research goals of the project. The hope is that through this research, the infrastructure will pay for itself many times over not just in knowledge but in improved health and life quality outcomes for older adults; it will also provide service- and project-based learning opportunities for a number of graduate and undergraduate students. The network will consist of a number of homes using a standardized technology package to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure data collection and data sharing across the many studies while also addressing privacy and acceptability concerns for participants. It will include a number of window and door sensors, a wearable activity tracker, a tablet computer for communicating with and collecting survey information from residents, a wireless access point and paid internet access, and an in-home server that manages the installed devices and data. The servers will be connected and managed with an enhanced version of the team's existing Piloteur framework for reliable sensor data collection in homes. Piloteur will be extended to support larger-scale deployment and changes in the standard technology package demanded by technology advances and research needs, and will add a layer for storing, securing, and sharing the data using existing open standards. Installation sites will be run by technicians supervised by the research team. The technicians will handle recruiting and communicating with participants as well as deploying and debugging the technology installations in the homes, and participants will be recruited to ensure diversity along demographic factors that should improve generalizability of results. The team will also develop materials to make it easy for other researchers to use and join the network. For those who want to access the existing network for individual studies, they will develop a HomeSHARE Study Packet that includes guidance on study planning and costs, technical aspects of the homes and data, and sample materials from prior studies that have been approved by Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). For those who want to join the network, they will create a HomeSHARE Site Kit that includes information about best practices around recruitment and installation, sample IRB materials for existing sites, and standard budget information useful for writing proposals to join the network. A leadership committee initially composed of researchers from the awardee institutions will oversee project management, including the coordination of studies using the network, the evolution of the standard technology package, the addition of new installation sites to the network, and the administration of the data sharing and costs.

该项目为开发HomeShare提供资金，HomeShare是一种社区基础设施，用于围绕就地老龄化进行研究，为社区提供访问智能家居网络的权限，该网络带有标准传感器包，并能够根据特定研究的需要添加定制技术。目前，尽管人们对使用家庭传感器来模拟移动性和健康有很大的研究兴趣，但建立这类研究很困难，而且几乎没有基础设施来支持它。这往往会导致在建立网站方面重复、浪费精力；参与研究的家庭数量非常少，限制了研究的普遍性和力量；不同团队使用的设置不兼容，使得将不同的研究成果组合在一起变得困难。为了解决这一问题，该团队将创建一个大型家庭网络的骨干，该网络可以支持使用感知信息预测家中老年人的一系列属性的研究，包括活动模式、心理健康、重新住院和能源使用。主要活动是在两个合作机构的30个志愿者家庭中部署他们的传感器和其他计算技术套件，并开发连接和收集家庭数据的软件。团队成员将与家庭居民仔细合作，以支付技术成本，并解决他们所关心的隐私和技术问题。他们还将创建涵盖技术、道德和培训问题的材料，其他研究人员可以将其用作使用现有网络进行研究的客户端站点(收费以支付运营成本)，以及通过添加自己的智能家居直接加入网络的安装站点。为了管理对基础设施的需求，该团队将创建一个管理委员会，由最初从获奖者所在机构挑选的研究人员组成。该委员会将审查研究的技术需求和应用，以确保它们符合项目的伦理和研究目标。希望通过这项研究，基础设施不仅在知识方面，而且在改善老年人的健康和生活质量方面，将获得数倍的回报；它还将为许多研究生和本科生提供基于服务和基于项目的学习机会。该网络将由使用标准化技术包的多个家庭组成，以确保在众多研究中进行一致、可靠和安全的数据收集和数据共享，同时解决参与者的隐私和可接受性问题。它将包括一些门窗传感器、一个可穿戴的活动跟踪器、一台用于与居民通信并从居民那里收集调查信息的平板电脑、一个无线接入点和付费互联网接入，以及一个管理安装的设备和数据的家庭服务器。服务器将使用团队现有Piloteur框架的增强版本进行连接和管理，以实现家庭中可靠的传感器数据收集。Piloteur将进行扩展，以支持根据技术进步和研究需求对标准技术包进行更大规模的部署和更改，并将增加一个层，用于使用现有的开放标准存储、保护和共享数据。安装地点将由研究小组监督的技术人员管理。技术员将负责招聘和与参与者沟通，以及在家庭中部署和调试技术装置，并将招聘参与者，以确保人口因素的多样性，这将提高成果的普遍性。该团队还将开发材料，以便于其他研究人员使用和加入该网络。对于那些想要访问现有网络进行个人研究的人，他们将开发一个HomeShare研究包，其中包括关于研究规划和成本的指导、家庭的技术方面和数据，以及已获得机构审查委员会(IRBs)批准的先前研究的样本材料。对于那些想要加入该网络的人，他们将创建一个HomeShare网站工具包，其中包括有关招聘和安装的最佳实践信息、现有网站的IRB材料样本以及有助于撰写加入该网络的建议书的标准预算信息。最初由获奖机构的研究人员组成的领导委员会将监督项目管理，包括协调使用网络的研究、标准成套技术的演变、向网络添加新的安装地点以及数据共享和费用的管理。